A History of Australia, Volume 2

The second volume in a history of Australia which aims to highlight the hardship and trauma that occurred there during the establishment and development of white settlement. This volume chronicles New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) between 1822 and 1838.

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Page 330He was Sir William Molesworth. He had been born in London in 1810. Like
Stephen and Russell Molesworth had been cursed at birth with an oddity which
so disfigured him that boys teased him unmercifully all through his days at
boarding ...

Page 331Wakefield was also campaigning hard for abolition; Mr Over-Secretary Stephen,
who, alas, was not a man for the pleasures Molesworth loved so madly, was also
on his side; the saints of Exeter Hall, and the clergy and laity of the Clapham ...

Page 336“I believe', said Molesworth, 'your father was a great landed proprietor in New
South Wales'. And dear, kind James replied with simple dignity: “He was; the late
Mr John Macarthur'. Molesworth knew nothing of the tragic history of that great ...